I feel like this is exactly my experience. I often look forward to long road-trips as a driver. I have fun planning out a route. In my twice-yearly drives from Boston to visit my Mom in NJ, which I've made for 20 years, I am *desperate* to plan out new routes (even off-highway routes that objectively take longer),…

He hasn't actually been cast yet, they've just offered it to him.

My thought was mostly, "Dammit Hollywood, you leave Watanabe out of this, I don't want him associated with this debacle".

Good god... I think we might have had the Van Buren. I'd need to check old family photos to be sure, I'm not actually remembering whether it had the edging around the top or not. Even if we didn't have one of these exact models, no matter, because we DID have a TV that was entirely encased in a fancy wooden box just…

TBH, I am wondering if they are shooting for "border Scots" with her character, or something that contrasts her with the Highland Scots of the rest. The character design is so different, too.

I too kind of wanted him to be the wolf in the road. (Fables fan as well.) But if I have to put money on it, I figure he's the Huntsman. That seems the more obvious take, to me. And this show is really all about the obvious. (I don't mean that in a bad way, necessarily.)

It occurs to me that I have not really eaten a Red Delicious (sic) in years. I automatically seek out other varieties. I only came across the Rose Red because I became curious as to how old a cultivar Red Delicious is, and it's pretty recent.

Love this webcomic enormously; have been following it since day one. The only drawback to it is that it has gone on some hiatuses of indeterminate length, in the past. So this is not a Girl Genius or Gunnerkrigg Court style "updates faithfully 3x a week" webcomic.

Considering how many Disney movies are also on this list — and I can think of more, you could do a "10 Most Terrifying Disney Movie Moments" list all by itself — how can you say, "the Walt Disney philosophy" and mean it as "movies that try not to be scary"?

Hardly unintentional, though. Very much intentional.

20 years before?

I honestly kind of feel like this movie is only mistakenly thought of as being for kids, because of all the cartoons. But it was a very adult take on the idea of a world of cartoon characters, from the start. And to the best of my knowledge, the book it's based on was not a children's or young adults book.

I ask sincerely: who on Earth ever thought that Time Bandits was actually for KIDS?

You know, completely coincidentally, I just watched a PBS show last night about whaling that told me about the wreck of the Essex in 1820, which I'd never actually heard of before, but which was the thing that inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick. The Essex was a whaling ship (obviously) that was stove in by…

Oh my god yes, "Hyde and Go Tweet"! I hadn't thought about that in years, but as soon as I read this, it popped very vividly back into my head. Ugh!

Well done. Now I have "You Sexy Thing" stuck in my head.

Best. Historical. Mash-up. Idea. EVER. Possibly involving time-travel. Imagine the soundtrack! IMAGINE!

It would be really, really hard to get palm trees in the shape of a giant B. But I'd like to see them try.

Okay, that explanation just makes me love Clancy Brown more than I already did, and that is a LOT.

What I remember most vividly is that my local theater was only showing it as a double-feature with Paul McCartney's "Give My Regards to Broad Street". And it never occurred to me to show up halfway through, so I sat through that movie first in order to get to "Buckaroo Banzai". I believe there were 3 of us in the…